Soviet people of World War II

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held office as general secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and as premier from 1941 until his death. Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become a dictator by the 1930s. Stalin codified the Communist Party's official interpretation of Marxism as Marxism–Leninism, and his version of it is referred to as Stalinism.

Soviet politician, statesman and diplomat (1890–1986)

Soviet politician (1875–1946)

Soviet marshal and politician

Soviet politician (1893–1991)

Soviet spy in Germany and Japan (1895－1944)

Russian author (1899–1951)

Russian Soviet writer and journalist (1905-1964)

human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov

Soviet cosmonaut

Soviet children's writer (1904–1941)

Soviet politician, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1888–1970)

Soviet radio announcer (1914–1983)

Soviet partisan and intelligence agent

Soviet writer and poet (1925-1988)

Russian and Soviet surgeon, founder of Russian neurosurgery (1876-1946)

Soviet spy (1924–2012)

Soviet general (1900–1941)

Ukrainian singer (1906-1984)

Soviet physicist and dissident (1924–2020)

Soviet jurist of Baltic German origin (1889–1951)

Soviet politician (1903-1974)

Soviet jurist (1895–1967)

Azerbaijani geurilla (1918–1944)

Soviet scientist and admiral (1893-1979)

group of soldiers, a cliche of Soviet propaganda

Russian poet, playwright and writer (1912-1996)

Romanian politician (1898–1963)

Soviet general (1896-1967)

Georgian Soviet diplomat (1885-1971)

Soviet surgeon (1890–1967)

Soviet soldier (1936–1990)

Russian philosopher, cultural theorist, and Soviet dissident (1918–2013)

Romanian writer (1916-1941)

Russian artist (1912-1993)

animator (1925-2000)

Soviet and Russian actor (1921—2023)

Soviet Tatar composer (1913–1943)

Soviet partisan (1900–2000)

Soviet camera operator and film director (1909-1993)

Russian weapon designer (1903–1940)

Soviet Army officer (1905–1941)

Romanian magazine editor and politician (1910–1993)

Soviet painter (1923-2010)

Russian historian (1920–1993)

Soviet soldier (1925–1997)

Russian actor (1920-2002)

Moldovan literary critic (1924-2010)

soviet psychiatrist (1904–1987)

Russian association football player (1923-2021)

Russian sportsperson (1915-2016)

Russian painter (1911–1978)

Romanian writer (1913–1943)

Jamaican-American-Russian machinist (1906–1994)

Russian engineer (1924–1960)

Officer of Soviet security agencies in the Lithuanian SSR

Soviet film director (1925–2021)

Ukrainian war criminal who participated in the Khatyn massacre

Soviet artist, animator and cartoonist (1921-2004)